In Połack the picket took place in support of the deputy chairman of the Republican Free Trade Union of Belarus Mikałaj Šarach – the assistant craftsman in the Section 7 at the enterprise “Połacak-Škłovałakno” with whom the administration refuses to renew the working contract. Continue reading »

Tags: Administrative proceedings, freedom of peaceful assembly and expression, Mikałaj Šarach, Polatsak, Połacak, Połack, workers rights, Полоцк

Leaflets with such a title were distributed on Saturday in Połacak near the entrance of the enterprise “Škłovałakno” by the activists of Belarusian Free Trade Union.
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Tags: BFTU, JSC Polatsk-Shklovalakno, JSC Polotsk-Steklovolokno, Mikalay Sharakh, Nikolay Sharakh, persecution, Polatsak, Polotsk, Połacak, repression, trade unions, Viktar Stukau, Viktor Stukov, Полоцк

8 April in the evening at the town exit of Polatsk the road police stopped the car with the youth activists, members of the Young Front and the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Liudvisia Atakulava, Valery Matskevich, Dzianis Sadouski, Aliaksei Shein and Pavel Sitnik. During the detention the policemen told that the chair of Polatsk town police department had some questions to them.  Continue reading »

Tags: Polatsak, Young Front